A student group at New York University last night bowed to what they said was pressure from administrators and decided not to display the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed at a panel discussion on the often-violent worldwide reaction to the cartoons.

Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked deadly protests among Muslims in several countries.

One more point about the cartoons. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the Alberta Human Rights Commission had accepted the complaint of a radical Imam and was pursuing the Western Standard for printing the cartoons. This week the magazine launched a defence fund to fight this malicious attack on the freedom of the press. Learn more and donate here.

A crowd of Muslims of Griya Bukit Jaya Housing Complex, in Bogor Regency of West Java Province, forced a Christian pastor, Fekky Tatulus, to stop his Sunday service and to close his home church on Sunday 26 March. The reason given was that the lack of a permit to hold religious services in a private house.

Of course, this gentleman's tactics are spot-on and should be employed by his foes. When there is - for example - an anti-freedom of speech rally, DfH and the rest of us should go out with our binos and look for anything we deem to be 'offensive'.

For instance, why not complain about those imams' hats? They offend me. Beards also offend me. Deeply. Especially long beards.

Then we bombard plod with complaints and ensure each one is dealt with properly.

If Winnie-the-Sodding-Pooh is considered to be 'offensive' then so is excessive facial hair.